Books and Manuscripts

(New York): Harper and Row, Publishers, 1963. First edition (with Library of Congress catalog card number "63-21253" printed on title page). Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Sendak on verso of front free endpaper in the month and year of publication, "For Adam, Who knows where the Wild Things are!!", and with an original illustration of Max below same. Illustrated by Sendak. Publisher's quarter grey cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards, boards lightly soiled, corners and extremities worn, short tear in cloth at bottom of spine, spine ends lightly worn; patterned endpapers; front hinge starting; faint tidemark in fore-edge, affecting most leaves; dust-jacket wanting. Hanrahan A58

Sendak's most famous book, inscribed in the month and year of publication and with an original illustration by him, uncommon thus.